The real culprits in this [the Sinai attack], regardless of who actually did the attack, [are] the Israelis and the Egyptian army leadership.”
Political analyst Hisham Safieddin

Israel and the leadership of Egypt’s military are “the real culprits” behind the deadly Sinai attack, regardless of who the actual perpetrators of the attack were, political analyst Hisham Safieddin says.
He was commenting on the attack in Sinai on Sunday, in which armed men stormed an Egyptian police station and killed 16 members of the security forces.
“The real culprits in this [the Sinai attack], regardless of who actually did the attack, [are] the Israelis and the Egyptian army leadership,” Safieddin said in an interview with Press TV on Wednesday.
Three types of groups generally carry out such attacks, he noted.
“It is either groups that are actually motivated or pushed by intelligence services; so it very well might be a possibility that the Mossad is behind this, even if indirectly, or it is actually groups that are, you know, radical Islamist groups that have their own agendas, maybe possibly linked to al-Qaeda,” he stated.
“The third type… [is] the groups that actually possibly have grievances and they have things to do with smuggling; they have territorial disputes; they belong to some of the Sinai tribes, and they actually have vendettas or they have something against the Egyptian army and also, of course, they have no love lost towards Israel,” he added.
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